Has anyone been banned for using this yet i would like to purchase it but i have used lot of money on card and would hate to get banned.
Blizzard does ban waves. No one has gotten banned yet, but we don't know if we will get banned in a wave in the future or not. I've spent 100$+ on my acc and bot it every night, but you should know you're never 100% safe when using a bot program. Buy/Use at own risk!
why would you get banned? there is no report function in the game and a bot does not get detected by the opponent so easily in a 1vs1 game ...
actully, Blizzard had banned a wave just before beta test. it's just reset your account. all cards disappeared, all hero set Lv10. And if you have used real money to buy cards, it give back your money in gold coins. -- why Bliz do this? IMO, 1th, before the beta tests, the gold coins a player can get per day are not limited by 100. so, the bots make a real big different. 2nd, some people collected so many cards by use a bot in alphe test, it's not friendly to beta test players. you can finger out the risk by your own
Tony I would imagine you of all people would be an advocate for the truth. You don't know any more than the rest of us! We don't know when, if, how, anybody will get banned. It will surely happen some day. This is a free to play game, so blizzard will not give it the attention they do WoW (Warden), but they won't continue to ignore it if the problem doesn't go away. Not to mention the fact that some people have botted to LEGENDARY.
Are we talking about the other bot that uses the silverfish API as well? In that case won't this bot be just as good if not better soon enough?
I'll not advertise either but still answer the question (even if I'll have forum-ban; I'm a journalist and I'm ready to get hit for telling the truth). Some people got legendary with hearthcrawler. No real proofs, just screenshots. Hearthbuddy is MUCH more safe (no proofs, just developer's claim) to use if you don't want to get a ban. I actually saw reports from hearthcrawler bot users who said they got ban. Again, no proof, aside of screenshots (I can make fake ban screenshot in photoshop in under 5 minutes. So, you've got an idea). I myself using hearthbuddy for gold and quests grinding, but getting to legendary without bot. Don't care much about other bots cuz I don't like to pay twice for similar product. Ranking and legendary — manually. Quests, daily 100g, 60th levels and golden portraits — hearthbuddy (no silverfish. It is awfully bad ATM). That's how I'm doing it.
That was not a ban wave. Every account that was in before the reset, or "ban wave" as u called it, was reset because Blizzard had a big patch with alot of changes and they did it only to the most populated servers. Read it here